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News 9/3/25
Top News
AI-powered medical records retrieval and insights startup Predoc raises $30 million in seed and Series A funding.
Reader Comments
From We’re All Gonna Get Laid (Off): “Re: Oracle Health. RIFfed a reported 20% of its remaining health division employees this morning.” The percentage is unverified, but the human capital liquidation – which was ironically timed just after Labor Day — is not.
From Joe Schneider, MD: “Re: vaccine recommendations in CDS. It’s fascinating to watch the silence of the big EHR companies as they ponder whether to support the AAP and ACOG COVID vaccination recommendations in their Clinical Decision Support tools. The recommendations of the groups differ, most importantly from the reconstituted ACIP by recommending COVID coverage for children 6-23 months and for pregnant women. Having seen newborn babies and new moms struggling with COVID and the damage it does, I hope Epic, Cerner, and the others have the guts to take a stand. The AAP thinks this is just the first salvo of a broader attack on vaccinations. Sue Kressly is the president and she just did a podcast on this. It’s got some ads in the beginning, but the wait is worth it. It also has good vaccination advice at the end.” Thanks. The podcast is here.
HIStalk Announcements and Requests
The most common needs of the minority of poll respondents who used online services from unfamiliar clinicians were primary or urgent care, weight loss, and mental health.
New poll to your right or here: How hard will Medicaid cuts and higher ACA premiums hit health systems by increasing the number of uninsured patients? Medicaid’s “unwinding” will disenroll a lot of people, and ACA plans will become even less affordable because of rising premiums and the possibility that existing tax credits will be allowed to expire. Hospitals in rural areas and non-expansion states will see the biggest impact.
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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock
Healthcare AI governance and risk management startup Alignmt AI announces $6.5 million in seed funding.
Digi International will incorporate newly-acquired Jolt Software’s operations technologies into its SmartSense business, which offers operational intelligence and compliance automation software for healthcare and other verticals.
Prescription routing and affordability solutions vendor Eversana acquires Waltz Health, which provides software-powered drug marketplaces.
Stat reports that AI scribe vendor Abridge met with hospital customers late last week to reassure them after Epic announced its development of potentially competing Microsoft/Nuance-powered products.
Sales
- Connecticut Children’s Care Network will implement data activation, population health analytics, and quality reporting solutions from Innovaccer.
People
ReferWell names Imad Ahmed (Universal Health Services) as COO and chief product officer, and Glen Olson (Shearwater Health) as SVP of sales.
Cris Ross, MBA (Mayo Clinic) and John Driscoll (Walgreens Boots Alliance) join health tech venture studio Aegis Ventures as venture partners.
Announcements and Implementations
Logan Health’s Shelby campus (MT) goes live on Oracle Health as part of a systemwide implementation.
Government and Politics
HHS develops a public dashboard that offers insight into organ donations, including those that occur out of order and cases where organs aren’t used. The launch is part of the government’s overhaul of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, which has faced criticism for increased cases of “skipping the line” and organ procurement organizations ignoring signs of life that are incompatible with donation.
Privacy and Security
University of Iowa Health Care and affiliate UI Community HomeCare notify 211,000 patients and employees of a July 3 data breach. The hacker was able to view and take copies of files from within HomeCare’s computer system, which prompted both organizations to take their shared systems offline for one day.
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center recovers from an outage that began during a system upgrade last Friday. The hospital reverted to downtime and diversion procedures over the weekend.
Other
Oracle Health lists the former Malvern, PA campus of Cerner-acquired SMS / Siemens at 51 Valley Stream Parkway for sale.
Clinics in South Australia report surging abuse from patients who are unable to get appointments after several practices stopped taking new patients. One clinic logged 15 incidents in a single day, with front desk staff berated by visitors shouting “If I die, it’ll be your fault” and slamming doors when told that no GPs in the state’s second-largest city are accepting new patients. Some patients have turned to ChatGPT and TikTok for medical advice, but attempts to redirect them to telehealth services have mostly failed.
A Utah judge awards $1 billion to the family of a newborn girl who was left permanently disabled during delivery at Steward-owned Jordan Valley Medical Center (UT). The mother, who was visiting Utah briefly, was attended by newly trained nurses and a doctor who reportedly dismissed concerns about the developing complications and went back to bed in the on-call room. Judge Patrick Corum remarked that the mother “would have been better off delivering this baby at the bathroom of a gas station, or in a hut somewhere in Africa.” Lawyers say Steward’s bankruptcy makes full collection unlikely, but they hope to secure the $500 million in punitive damages.
Sponsor Updates
- Symplr employees assemble hygiene products during volunteer time with Giving the Basics.
- Arcadia publishes a new report titled “ Scaling Smarter: The Data Strategies Powering High-Performing Health Plans.”
- Wolters Kluwer Health adds an AI Article Summary feature to its Ovid platform for medical researchers.
- Vyne Medical publishes a new case study titled “How Automation is Shaping the Future of Document Management at VHC Health.”
- KLAS Research names Nym a top performer in a new report titled “Autonomous Coding 2025: A Promising Start for an Early Market.”
- PerfectServe will exhibit at the MGMA Leaders Conference September 28-October 1 in Orlando.
- Redox releases a new episode of its “Shut the backdoor” podcast titled “The Quiet Disruptor – Inside an Intern’s AI Innovation.”
- ReferWell names Annette Betancur, PhD, MBA, RN strategic account manager.
- TruBridge will exhibit at the TORCH/TARCH Annual Fall Conference September 8-11 in Round Rock, TX.
- WellSky submits a comment letter to CMS on the CY2026 Home Health Proposed Payment Rule.
Blog Posts
- Reducing Administrative Burden for Physician Practices (Med Tech Solutions)
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- Bringing SDOH into Focus: The Role of Coding in Advancing Health Equity (Nym)
- 3 Ways ‘Data with Purpose’ Is Shaping Patient Care (Surescripts)
- AI in healthcare payments: 300+ leaders reveal what’s working + where they’ll invest next (Waystar)
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“This new health management system will deliver much better information to healthcare professionals… That is now our primary mission here at Oracle.”
— Larry Ellison
(Modern Healthcare, June 9, 2022)
Mission Accomplished?
In regards to the Clinical Decision Support comment, the EHRs listed don’t generally create and distribute it centrally. Each Epic site creates their own decision support logic, for instance.
It can be and does get distributed via Foundation System/Turbocharger if it gets built, but would still be subject to site decisions about adoption, customization etc. Typically the first question about building any content/guidelines from a third party is whether Epic has a license/permission to do so and to distribute it to its customers.
There seems to be a misunderstanding that everyone followed the old ACIP guidelines. If there’s one thing EHRs have proven: medicine is more art than science.
Huh? Most Epic orgs do NOT build their own logic for immunization scheduling (unless they’ve got leadership with incredibly malformed priorities, or a really bored and masochistic physician builder). Epic interprets, builds, and releases updates based on ACIP->CDSi guidance. While sites are in charge of the *codes* that point to a particular ACIP-determined risk series, making and then *maintaining* custom series is awful.
If Epic does indeed decide to offer setup against the ACIP rules, that will be quite something.
Unconfirmed citation regarding the entire Oracle organization…
Oracle Layoffs are intense.
Entire orgs are getting blindsided.
Cloud, Comms/Marketing, Engineering, Ops, Sales
Directors, ICs, even SVPs – all levels.
Remote and in-office. Top performers. Doesn’t matter.
People with 7, 13, 18, 20+ years at Oracle… gone!!
I was told- If you got the email for saying ‘Project Updates’ – that’s the bait.
You join the call.
An HR rep read a statement.
Access cut within 5 minutes.
Laptop wiped. That’s it.
– Some management didn’t even know.
– RIF decisions weren’t made by your manager.
– Not even your manager’s manager.
People found out their reports were laid off AFTER the fact… then they got cut next.
SaaS execs were reportedly told:
“Cut 10–12% of workforce by end of year.”
And yes, I’m being told some H-1B workers are being impacted as well.
This morning:
– SVPs laid off
– Longtime employees ghosted by leadership
– 1/3 of some teams already gone
– One Oracle vet: “I just got traded in for a GPU.”